Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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Cineskinny
GFF 2013: The Kids are All Right
Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner often describes Glasgow Youth Film Festival as the main festival's little sister, but GYFF is growing up fast, and this year offers another stellar lineup aimed towards a youth and family audience Read more »| 25 Jan 2013 -
Festivals
The King of Pigs
The King of Pig's brutal animation smoulders but its characters remain flat Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: Something Wicked This Way Comes
FrightFest is back in Glasgow. Hold your nerves Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
5 Broken Cameras
Arriving on DVD with the imprimatur of an Oscar nomination, 5 Broken Cameras is a world away from the glamour of the Academy Awards red carpet. Drawing on hu... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013 -
Interviews
Twisted Sisters: An Interview with the Soska Siblings
The Soska siblings take their scalpels to misogyny in the horror genre Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's astounding new film opens with the horrific sounds of 9/11 played over a black screen and it ends with the death of Osama bin Laden; its su... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013
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Dvd Reviews
American Mary
Perhaps those willing to endure cold steel against warm flesh for aesthetic self expression are the ultimate fashion victims. Yet twisted twin directors Jen ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
Lincoln
Much has been made in the US press of Daniel Day-Lewis’s decision to adopt a high, reedy voice (instead of a stentorian baritone) to portray sixteenth ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
What Richard Did
In the world of cinema, Richard (Jack Reynor), the 18-year-old title character in Lenny Abrahamson’s hugely impressive third feature, is an anomaly. He... Read more »| 17 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
The Wee Man
This is the hagiography of St Paul – Ferris that is. The Glasgow gangland hall-of-famer whose life is laid out here on celluloid, yet left untarnished ... Read more »| 15 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
V/H/S
Conceived and co-produced by Bloody-disgusting.com’s Brad Miska, V/H/S unites horror movie formats past (the anthology) and ever-present (found-footag... Read more »| 14 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
The Sessions
With the majority of American films being terrified of approaching sex in anything like an honest fashion, the frankness and good humour of The Sessions is a... Read more »| 14 Jan 2013 -
Opinion
Tarantino’s Magpie Moments
Quentin Tarantino's never been shy about his cinematic larceny. We revisit five of his finest homages Read more »| 10 Jan 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
This gentle Japanese film starts out as a nice guy, and nobody really likes a nice guy; they never get the girls. A meandering story of love, dogs and ... Read more »| 10 Jan 2013 -
Opinion
The Django Chain
Django Unchained is the latest in a long line of Django knockoffs. Here are four of the best Django outings Read more »| 09 Jan 2013